Seligman, Arizona
| Seligman, Arizona | |
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 Location in Yavapai County and the state of Arizona |
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 Seligman, Arizona
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| Coordinates: 35°19′42″N 112°52′27″W / 35.32833°N 112.87417°WCoordinates: 35°19′42″N 112°52′27″W / 35.32833°N 112.87417°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Yavapai |
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| • Total | 6.4 sq mi (16.6 km2) |
| • Land | 6.4 sq mi (16.5 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 5,242 ft (1,598 m) |
| Population (2000) | |
| • Total | 456 |
| • Density | 71.5/sq mi (27.6/km2) |
| Time zone | MST (UTC-7) |
| ZIP code | 86337 |
| Area code(s) | 928 |
| FIPS code | 04-65420 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0011070 |
Seligman (Havasupai: Thavgyalyal) is a census-designated place (CDP) on the northern border of Yavapai County, in northwestern Arizona, the United States.
The population was 456 at the 2000 census.
Seligman is located at 35°19′42″N 112°52′27″W / 35.32833°N 112.87417°W (35.328199, −112.874303), at 5,240 feet (1,600 m) in elevation, alongside the Big Chino Wash, in a northern section of Chino Valley. The wash is a major tributary of the Verde River. Seligman is a popular stopping point along Historic U.S. Route 66.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Seligman CDP has a total area of 6.4 square miles (17 km2), all of it land.
The region was in the longtime homeland of the Havasupai people, who had a settlement in the present day Seligman area. The town site was on Beale's Wagon Road, and a stage stop on the Mojave Road
Originally Seligman was called “Prescott Junction” because it was the railroad stop on the Santa Fe mainline junction with the Prescott and Arizona Central Railway Company feeder line running to Prescott, in the Arizona Territory. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had reached it in 1882. In 1886 it was renamed Seligman, after Jesse Seligman, one of the founders of J.W. Seligman Co. of New York, who helped finance the railroad lines in the area. The original feeder line to Prescott was replaced in 1891 by the Santa Fe, Prescott and Phoenix Railway with the Santa Fe mainline junction at Ash Fork instead.
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